Guest Thomas Keske Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 WRITTEN IN SANDSTONE Don't miss your opportunity to have your name engraved on a sandstone brick, which will be set at the Olympic Legacy Plaza. It is a sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. During the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers. The outcroppings look like giant skulls. A gentle ascent brings you by a far corner of the Santa Susana Field Lab's parking lot. From the San Fernando Valley, take the 118/ Ronald Reagan Freeway. Hikers may be surprised to find the park's quiet shattered by a short (under 30 second), low, loud rumbling noise. You'll soon arrive at the "Campground Overflow Parking" lot. Other inscribed remains include several fragments of a badly eroded and smashed stela, the corner of a small naos, and the bottom half of a statue. The monolith that rises precipitously out of a nearly level plain could be taken to symbolize how uncomfortable truth inevitably rises out of denial and complacency. Nothing ends when people decide that it will end; it ends when the outcome is just. Governments may come and governments may go, but it would be naive to think that lions of the mind will stop roaring. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSArtMesoamericanGlyphs3-Lesson2.htm Title - Mesoamerican Glyphs By - Roberta Reagan Subject - Social Studies, Art Name of Art Lesson: Symbolic Meaning of Glyphs Terms (review from last lesson): a. Codex -an Aztec picture book made from tree bark, cloth, or deerskin, which was then folded back and forth in a zigzag manner. Show example of sandstone project ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://sciencespot.net/Pages/digmain.html DIGGING INTO SCIENCE As part of our annual unit on fossils and geologic time, our students explore the role of paleontologists in discovering our Earth's history as they dig for the bones of an "ancient" critter After placing a thin layer of the sandstone mixture in a site, related bones (wings, legs, or neck) were placed together, while others were scattered to recreate a skeleton from a critter than had been prey for larger animals. In some years I have used leftover bones and created sites that contained the remains from more than one animal to provide an extra challenge during reconstruction. Once all the bones were in the site, they were covered with the remaining sandstone mixture. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sandia.gov/media/dinosaur.htm Sandia is a Department of Energy multiprogram science and engineering laboratory whose primary mission is to ensure the nuclear weapon stockpile is safe, secure, and reliable. So much of our work at Sandia is classified and we therefore can't talk about it." Diegert said. "This is a project that's appealing and we can talk about it, and therefore, it can serve as a recruiting tool for getting more young people interested in thinking about a career in computing The cross sections were loaded in numerical form into a computer in order to reconstruct an undistorted crest. Diegert and Williamson studied the images and instructed the computer how to read the density in order to sort out which was bone and which was the sandstone and clay that fills and encases the fossil. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Black Dragon Canyon That faded anthropomorph, which hasn't budged a mutated limb for over 1000 years, insists on sweetening my cowboy coffee with a dash of Navajo Sandstone. Silly humanoid. Black Dragon Canyon http://www.cyclingutah.com/oct/oct98/dragon.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nuclearactive.org/wipp/hearings/phillips.html TESTIMONY OF DR. RICHARD HAYES PHILLIPS - March 17, 1999. The Rustler Formation at WIPP is overlain by the Dewey Lake Redbeds. In the eastern half of the WIPP site, the Santa Rosa sandstone overlies the Rustler Formation. In the case of this "covered karst," sandstone impedes but does not prevent rainwater infiltration to the underlying karstic aquifers. KARST AT THE WIPP SITE Karst environments are the most vulnerable in the world to groundwater contamination. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has warned that "filtration, which acts in porous media to remove many contaminants from the water, is virtually absent in the karst environment." ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://judaism.about.com/od/jerusalem/ss/jerusalem_nick_7.htm The King David is a Jerusalem landmark and Israel's most famous hotel. Built with locally quarried pink sandstone, the hotel was opened in 1931. On July 22, 1946, when the hotel was being used as a base for the British Secretariat, it was bombed by the Jewish underground. Menachem Begin ordered the attack in retaliation for the British Operation Agatha. 91 people, mostly civilians, were killed. After the bombing, the hotel became a British fortress until May 4, 1948 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Atomic Veteran: Gene Joines, Operation Sandstone, 1948 After arriving, and several months of weather training and chasing TYPHOONS, I think ten of our B-29s were assigned to the Project Sandstone and were ... http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/joines.htm The enclosed is a little about the 514th's part in the Project SANDSTONE. Our four man tents were located several hundred feet beside the runway and our air cooled water bags in the center of our camp. Sleeping was not easy as the hot air and air planes (B-17 Drones and B-29 s) flying day and night training for the X, Y and Z bomb blasts. Our job was to fly several flights around the clock sampling the air on and around the sights of blast, and recording photos and air samples so the drones and other agencies would know the exact conditions of the areas around X, Y and Z. When the atomic blasts occured we were also flying in the blast areas, sampling and taking photos. After the blast, our flight crews were exposed to the radiation and the ground maintenance crews were also exposed as we had to wash the airplane after the flight before we could service them. After the first flight we then had to wash each ship after every flight as the airplanes flew each flight in a high radiation area before blast Y and Z were detonated and we repeated this until all blasts were complete and all areas were declared safe from radiation. Keith, feel free to edit this in any way you wish. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. UxC: Industry Links This area is historically known to host sandstone style Uranium deposits. International Uranium ... In southeastern Utah, the Company has also acquired the Happy Jack Mine and the North Was... http://www.uxc.com/links/uxc_links_company.aspx?type=prod... http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/ uraniummininginutah.html Joe Cooper and Fletcher Bronson discovered uranium in their played-out Happy Jack copper mine near Monticello and netted over $25 million. Between 1946 and 1959, 309,380 claims were filed in four Utah counties. A center of activity, the once sleepy farming town of Moab became known as "The Uranium Capitol of the World." ------------------------------------------------------------------ 41. The Who - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Keith Moon (deceased) ... like a little girl, "Happy Jack" about a mentally disturbed ... in slightly altered form, "Happy Jack") they abandoned R&B in . en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Who [Found on Yahoo! Search] ------------------------------------------------------------------ Sandstone Sandstone Music. Alas, the Sandstone electronica/pop project is dead, as is a wonderful vision and a grand design. What can we say? ... http://www.sandstonemusic.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.atlantisring.com/making_of_the_ring.aspx ....two triangles symbolize the two lost continents Atlantis and Lemuria A stone worker in the time of Pharaoh Amenhotep got the inspiration telepathically from the Atlantean intelligences that where in those days still strong. He made it from sandstone. Through its amazing powers it ended up in the possession of the high priest Jua (or Jus) who took it with him in his grave. The Atlantean intelligence knew that the ring would be found in our era and so the knowledge about Atlantis would be revived. Last but not least; our fabrication of the metal items is only done in the two weeks before full moon. Based upon the ancient knowledge that positive things should be done in the time of a waxing moon, like sowing seeds in the field, we adhere to this practice. The molten metal solidifies in the mold at the moment the moon is rising. A last observation; the photograph of the sandstone ring shows almost flat square and lines, very well worn. My own ring which started with pointed pyramids and pointed triangular lines looks after 8 years wearing just like the one on the picture, worn smooth, and flattened. However, I feel it always has the same powers. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.castleofspirits.com/stories06/cityofdead.html In this small cemetery is the Black Mausoleum where the poltergeist is. Many people have felt cold spots in this tomb and have left the tour only for cuts and welts to appear later. Part of the tour is for all of the participants to be locked in the tiny mausoleum for ten minutes. Now while I was in there I felt things touching me and heard scratching noises on the walls and ceiling of this sandstone tomb. While this wouldn't be uncommon, its what happened to me after I left that still scares me. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11282&page=18 EARTH-PENETRATOR WEAPONS 21 FIGURE 3.2 Limestone formations near Nashville, Tennessee, exhibiting layers of materials of different strengths. Photo courtesy of William J. Patterson. FIGURE 3.3 Sandstone syncline in New Mexico showing sloping layers. Photo courtesy of William J. Patterson. OCR for page 22 22 EFFECTS OF NUCLEAR EARTH-PENETRATOR AND OTHER WEAPONS FIGURE 3.4 Massive sandstone in New Mexico showing relatively homogeneous rock. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://newscafe.ansci.usu.edu/archive/april2001/0427_olympics.html Another opportunity to participate in the events was posted by the Deseret News . Staff writer Lisa Roche said Olympic organizers are looking for "every type of performer imaginable" including musicians, acrobats and comedians to entertain at each competition site as well as in downtown Salt Lake City's Olympic Square and in Park City. Applications will be accepted until June 4 and are available online at http://www.saltlake2002.com . If you want to be involved in the Games but do not have time to volunteer, you can donate $50 and have your name engraved on a sandstone brick, which will be set at the Olympic Legacy Plaza. Romney encourages all not to miss out on this incredible opportunity. ------------------------------------------------------------------ [PDF] PROCESSING THE DEAD IN NEOLITHIC ORKNEY File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat These upright slabs of sandstone project from the side of the walls, which consist of masonry. or dry stone walling, with a gap between their inner edges to ... http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1468-0092.t01-1-00002 ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa111400b.htm "I regard the Poet as a sentinel warning us against the approach of enemies called Bigotry, Lethargy; Intolerance, Ignorance, Inertia, and other members of that brood." --Gandhi Poets Way can be an absorbing, magnificent labor of love. Poetry matters. Whether you love oetry or have never been exposed to it, you can still come to Poets Way and leave with a new perspective. Poets Way will rekindle in those who see it the flame of the imagination. The voices are in the footprints of time, engraved in the sandstone that visitors will walk upon, that will reflect change through the written word. It may also raise the inevitable subject of return. It will mirror the personalities of poets and will encourage viewers to understand how social, political, and religious issues impact our perception and understanding. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://survivology.blogspot.com/ For the first time in human history, in fact for the first time since life began on Earth, we face the possibility of extinction, not from any external cause, but from our own actions. A giant sandstone monolith that rises precipitously out of a nearly level plain, it could be taken to symbolize how uncomfortable truth inevitably rises out of denial and complacency. Here's the plan: four carts, one for each direction on the compass. They do a circuit around Uluru, then gradually split up. Cart one heads north, then northwest through Indonesia, southeast Asia, India, Middle East, Europe, across the Atlantic to NYC. Cart two heads east to Cape York, then skirts the Pacific Ocean through New Guinea, Philippines, Taiwan, China, Japan, Siberia, Alaska, Canada and NYC. Cart three heads south to Melbourne and Sydney, then across the ocean to Tierra del Fuego. It travels the length of South America, Central America, the U.S. to NYC. Cart four heads east to Perth, crosses the Indian Ocean to Africa, does a ziz-zag tour through that continent from South Africa to Morocco, then across the Atlantic to NYC. The correct name for the festival is rath yatra (rath means cart or chariot, yatra means pilgrimage, journey or procession). Although the rath yatra in Puri perhaps is the best known, many other communities across India (and today, elsewhere in the world) hold similar festivals. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.infowest.com/Utah/colorcountry/History/tabernacle.html St. George Tabernacle The 13 years it took to complete this building might seem like a long time compared with modern construction. However, consider this The limestone for the three-foot thick basement walls was hand- quarried from the foothills north of the city. Red sandstone boulders for the two-and-one-half foot walls were hand-quarried The fact that the Tabernacle was completed at the same time the temple and the courthouse were under construction (not to mention the family homes simultaneously being erected) is indeed a tribute to the industry of early settlers. (Note the individual chisel marks on each sandstone block.) The Prophecy In the spring of 1861, Brigham Young, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, looked out over the vast desert that later became the city of St. George and said, "There will yet be built between these volcanic ridges, a city, with spires and towers and steeples, with homes containing many inhabitants." Today it is clear that the prophecy has been fulfilled. Long ago these people had left lush farmlands in the East and midwest. Now they were to face years of struggle in the St. George area. But they found a place prepared with all that was necessary to erect a Temple to their God, and a Tabernacle in which to worship Him. Here was beautiful building rock ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.npp.hu/tortenelem/foldreaktor-e.htm The Oklo reactors perfectly fulfilled the requirements determined by Kuroda. The reactor cores of large mass and high uranium concentration embedded into porou carrying material, mainly sandstone. The concentration of neutron absorbing materials in the rocks was negligible In the porous sandstone there was sufficient amount of water for neutron moderation. Moreover, the water present in the rocks was thermohydraulically coupled to the surface and ground water. Finally, about 1.7 billion years ago the reactors went critical. The chain reaction was probably started by the spontaneous fission and cosmic radiation. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://nuclearterrorism.org/faq.html Does having a nuclear reactor help in building a nuclear weapon? Yes. Several states have used civilian nuclear reactors as a cover to make nuclear weapons. The "spent fuel" waste produced by a civilian reactor contains plutonium that, if separated out, can be used to make a bomb. (back to top) What is uranium and where is it found? Uranium is a radioactive element that can be used in nuclear weapons. It is found in nature -- in hard rock or sandstone -- throughout the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.uic.com.au/nip68.htm China's known uranium resources of 70,000 tU are theoretically sufficient to fill the requirements for the mainland nuclear program for the short-term CNNC's Bureau of Geology and the Beijing Research Institute of Uranium Geology are the key organisations involved with a massive increase in exploration effort since 2000, focused on sandstone deposits amenable to ISL in the Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia regions. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Romney gets mixed reaction in China - News - MSNBC.com BOSTON -- Governor Mitt Romney is getting a mixed reaction from Chinese ... That caused some students to snicker. A doctoral student said he thinks America http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16129170/ ------------------------------------------------------------------ .. Stonelove - Hand Carved Stone Statues: Dragons These marble and sandstone dragon statues are based on Oriental mythological designs but other dragons designs of your choice can also be hand carved in original marble or sandstone. http://www.stonelove.co.uk/dragons.0.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai and Lampang Gay Resources and Travel Tips Gay-owned business offering a wide range of exotic sandstone artwork including erotic male nudes and other gay-themed designs. Suitable for both indoor and http://www.utopia-asia.com/thaicm.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://althouse.blogspot.com/2004/02/more-on-gold-and-sandstone- analogy.html More on the gold and sandstone analogy. My son John writes: You wrote: "Gold is, obviously, not like marriage, because people have an interest in accumulating quantities of gold, but each person can only have one other person in the marriage market." ....So, anyway, my point is that the true conservative who genuinely wants to speak in quantitative terms about preserving the puritanical monolith called Marriage should be focusing on the current horrors of divorce instead of the potential dangers of gay marriage. (None of this matters anyway, since marriage doesn't work like gold, for the reasons you pointed out. But the conservatives should be argued with on their own terms.) Great points. Let me add that anyone who invoke the Traditional- Morality-Attack-On-Marriage argument has a real problem if they say it's okay to make an exception in the case of divorce but not okay to make another exception. You can't rest very solidly on a foundational principle if you tolerate exceptions for the things you and the people you identify with might want to do and then refuse to make exceptions for the things that only other people might want to do. That is the most unprincipled thing of all. Better to be completely flexible than to stand on inflexible principle only when it serves your own purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Links to Other Website The ancient Cinque Port Town of Rye sits on a sandstone hill commanding breathtaking views of Romney Marsh and the sea, guarding the coast from foreign ... http://www.frant.info/links/links.htm - 23k - Cached - Similar pages ------------------------------------------------------------------ 6. Sand and Stone Believe in Jesus ... Truly, truly I say to you, he who believes has eternal life. John 6:47. For God so loved the world http://www.believe-in-jesus.com/SandStone.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------ 17. Sandstone Wedding Invitations Items 1-3 of 3. Click on an item below to view details. ... Sacred Heart of Jesus: Prayer Cards : JA593 $32.95 for 100 sandstone.cceasy.com/order/Viewer.cfm?SetFormat=AA... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/AR/92-93/92-93_Desert_Road.html a sandstone temple stood atop the gebel at the beginning of the New Kingdom, overlooking what would become the Valley of the Kings Other inscribed remains include several fragments of a badly eroded and smashed stela, the corner of a small naos, and the bottom half of a statue. The sandstone stela has depictions of "Amun of Luxor" and "Mut, Mistress of the gods" in the lunette and several lines of hieroglyphic text. The lower left front corner of a small naos is the only limestone artifact thus far discovered. On its exterior are the feet of a man facing the back of the naos; on its front is the bottom of a column of text mentioning "3. power (in heaven), wsr power (on earth), justification (in the Netherworld), and the sweet breath of life," elements not uncommon to offering formulae. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.sustrans.org.uk/default.asp?sID=1155726269625 National Cycle Route 2 includes the many delights of dramatic chalk and sandstone cliffs, the stunning south Downs, quiet beaches and the austere beauty of Pevensey Levels and Romney Marsh. Seven Sisters off-road circular. 33 miles / strenuous, off-road suitable for mountain bikes only Cuckoo Trail and Low Weald Circular. 24miles, easy This delightful ride follows the flatter lanes to the west of the Cuckoo Trail. Taking in views of reservoirs and the South Downs, the route takes you through villages, and quiet roads lined with lush hedgerows. The Centurion Way takes you along the course of an old railway line. It passes through open farmland and woodland, leading to the edge of the beautiful South Downs, where you can extend your ride on the bridleways. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Mick Stockinger: October 2005 Archives While negotiating a particularly treacherous ramp of sandstone boulders, ... beliefs that make them interesting, is it Mitt Romney's prospective candidacy? ... http://www.uncorrelated.com/mick_stockinger/archives/2005/10/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.dailyrepublican.com/simitrails.html Simi Valley Historic Hiking Trails by Staff Writers, The Daily Republican Newspaper PALO ALTO DESK - Great sandstone formations and metamorphic backdrops right out of a western movie The name 'simi' was given to the region by the ancient Chumash Indian people of Coastal California Bordering Sage Ranch to the south is the Rocketdyne Santa Susana Field Laboratory, established in 1958. Rocket engine testing can be a noisy business, so the company chose the site, then called Paradise Valley, because of its isolation. The company and its successor, Rockwell International, have tested systems for the Apollo, Delta, Jupiter and Atlas projects, as well as for the Space Shuttle. Engine testing continues today; on weekdays, hikers may be surprised to find the park's quiet shattered by a short (under 30 second), low, loud rumbling noise. Rocketdyne's lab was the site of an early, glitch-prone nuclear reactor. The reactor was shut down long ago, but not before causing some low-level contamination of some of the nuclear research buildings. This accident, plus engine-cleaning toxic chemicals that seeped into the ground water, created a dilemma for the lab's neighbor Orrin Sage: In the 1980s when he wished to sell his ranch, he couldn't prove his ranch wasn't contaminated and thus couldn't market it. You'll soon arrive at the "Campground Overflow Parking" lot and join the signed loop trail. The path winds briefly among oaks and drops into a cluster of sandstone boulders. Enjoy inspiring views north of the Simi Valley and the distant peaks back of Ojai. The trail curves south, drops into a boulder-filled bowl, crosses it, then passes sandstone outcroppings that look like giant skulls. A gentle ascent brings you by a far corner of the Santa Susana Field Lab's parking lot. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Santa Susana Mountains The park can be reached from either Simi Valley or the San Fernando Valley. From the San Fernando Valley take the 118/ Ronald Reagan Freeway and exit Topanga http://www.etreking.com/eTreking/Pages/SantaSusana.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/b1989i/b1989i.pdf Reagan Sandstone Taft (1902) assigned the name "Reagan Sandstone" to the Cambrian- aged basal Phanerozoic sandstone in southern Oklahoma. The term is also used to identify similar strata in Kansas. The Reagan Sandstone overlies sandstones of the Proterozoic Rice Formation in some area of Kansas. The Reagan Sandstone is generally considered younger than the Mount Simon (Kurtz and others, 1975). Recent research (Carlson and others, 1990) suggests that the basal Cambrian sandstone in southeastern Nebraska and extreme southwestern Iowa is younger than the Mount Simon and should be assigned to the Reagan. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/ uraniummininginutah.html Uranium Mining in Utah Uranium, a radioactive element, was first mined in the western United States in 1871 by Dr. Richard Pierce, who shipped 200 pounds of pitchblende to London from the Central City Mining District near Denver, Colorado. The ore was researched for fabrication of steel alloys, chemical experimentation and as pigments for dyes, inks and stained glass. In 1898 Pierre and Marie Curie and G. Bemont isolated the "miracle element" radium from pitchblende. That same year, uranium, vanadium and radium were found to exist in carnotite, a mineral containing colorful red and yellow ores that had been used as body paint by early Navajo and Ute Indians on the Colorado Plateau. The discovery triggered a small prospecting boom in southeastern Utah, and radium mines in Grand and San Juan counties became a major source of ore for the Curi The Manhattan Project of the U.S. Corps of Engineers, charged with development of an atom bomb to end the war, instituted a covert program to mine uranium from the vanadium dumps and sent geologists to scour the region in search of new lodes. The Four Corners area, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet, suddenly teemed with prospectors in the greatest ore search since the gold fever days of the previous century. Amateurs and experts, alike, followed AEC guidelines and used radiation detectors called Geiger counters to test promising sandstone formations for uranium deposits. Utah's fabled uranium boom was not without tragedy. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/ colorfulandcontroversialjosephbrackenlee.html Lee decided to run for a third term in 1956, but by then he had lost the Republican Party's support and was forced to run on an Independent ticket. He racked up 94,428 votes, a tribute to his enduring popularity, but that was only good enough for third place against winning Republican George D. Clyde with 127,164 votes and Democrat L. C. Romney's 111,297. In March 1957 Lee was appointed national chairman of For America, a group organized to fight super-internationalism and seek a return to "constitutional government." Controversy followed Lee into the mayor's office. In March 1960 he fired Salt Lake City police chief W. Cleon Skousen, a man widely admired for his conservative views, professional law enforcement background, and tough stand on vice. The firing sent shock waves though the community. ------------------------------------------------------------------ 42. Modeling Shock Recovery Experiments of Sandstone P2.02] Modeling Shock Recovery Experiments of Sandstone R. P. Swift, C. R. Hagelberg, T. C. Carney, D. Greening (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545), M. flux.aps.org/meetings/YR99/SHOCK99/abs/G6200002.ht... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/ chemicalweaponscreatedcontroversyatdugway.html During the early months of American involvement in World War II, the U.S. War Department began to intensify research in chemical warfare defense. Cautious about conducting chemical tests in well-populated areas such as the military arsenal in Maryland, the War Department sought a more spacious, unpopulated area in which to conduct research. Western Utah fit the criteria. Almost immediately workers at the Dugway Proving Ground began testing chemical weapons to be used against wartime enemies. Tests with toxic agents, flame throwers, and chemical spray systems were performed at Dugway. One of the most popular World War II weapons, the 4.2-inch chemical mortar, was developed at the base. Animals were the victims of biological warfare research. In order to test the effectiveness of new chemical warfare agents, whole villages were built in German and Japanese architectural styles. Prisoners from Utah jails were transported to Dugway to build the structures. In 1968, however, an unusual event created a public relations turning point for the military at Dugway. In March 6,400 sheep were found dead after grazing in south Skull Valley, an area just outside Dugway's boundaries. When examined, the sheep were found to have been poisoned by a deadly nerve agent called VX. The incident, coinciding with the birth of the environmental movement and anti-Vietnam protests, created an uproar in Utah and internationally. Even after paying more than $1 million in compensation to farmers for their losses and to conduct the investigations, Dugway was unable to restore its reputation as a safe military site. Then in May 1969 rare antibodies of a disease called Venezuelan Encephalitis were found in birds, cattle, sheep, and rodents around the base. During the same year Air Force pilots flying over Dugway identified an entire region as highly contaminated. After a hearing in 1969 Dugway was required to give the Utah governor and state director of health regular briefings on all planned testing. The changing nature of warfare and society's concern over local and global environmental issues have changed the way Utahns look at the Dugway facility. For some its presence on the desert reassures them that the U.S. is staying abreast of developments in weapons technology; for others Dugway and its mission remain controversial. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lighting Utah's fire... Within," something Salt Lake Organizing Committee President Mitt Romney focused ... Some were even shelling out $50 for an engraved sandstone block that ... deseretnews.com/sydney/view/1,3466,195017221,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.nowpublic.com/tag/Tunnel Light at the end of the tunnel Dresden's magnificent train station has been restored to its prewar glory - by a British architect. Steve Rose on the project that brought out Norman Foster's sensitive side. The gleaming new pair of sandstone clock towers sitting on top of Dresden's central station are remarkable for several... ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.westerndemocrat.com/regionalism/ The idea, spearheaded by Republican Gov. John Hunstman of Utah, is to establish an eight-state "superprimary" in a region of common interests from Montana to New Mexico. Hydro Resources, Inc., has proposed to mine in four areas near the communities of Crownpoint and Churchrock. The uranium would not be removed by the previous traditional open-pit mining or shaft mining. The uranium would be removed by a process called In-situ Leach (ISL) mining. this type of mining includes the process of drilling holes in the ground, to the aquifer and injecting the water with chemicals that would "leach", or strip the uranium from the host rock (sandstone lined aquifer). The ISL mining method deliberately contaminates the ground water in the mining zone. At the present time Crownpoint has a pristine aquifer which provides pristine water to 15,000 people. These people come from all over the Eastern Navajo Agency to get water for everyday uses, such as cooking, drinking, cleaning, bathing and feeding livestock. Both the Church Rock and Crownpoint chapters as well as the Navajo Nation government have all passed resolutions legislation against this horrible (I'll call a spade a spade) environmental classism and racism. Tom Udall, the actual representative for our district (another reason to not like Heather Wilson) is opposed to the project, as well are numerous other individuals. Church Rock, New Mexico, would seem an improbable spot for a nuclear disaster...In the early morning hours of July 16, 1979-- fourteen weeks after the accident at Three Mile Island--all of that changed. The dam at Church Rock burst sending eleven hundred tons of radioactive mill wastes and ninety million gallons of contaminated liquid pouring toward Arizona. The wall of water backed up sewers and lifted manhole covers in Gallup, twenty miles downstream, and caught people all along the river unawares. "There were no clouds, but all of a sudden the water came," remembered Herbert Morgan of Manuelito, New Mexico. "I was wondering where it came from. Not for a few days were we told." No one was killed in the actual flood. But along the way it left residues of radioactive uranium, thorium, radium, and polonium, as well as traces of metals such as cadmium, aluminum, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, selenium, sodium, vanadium, zinc, iron, lead and high concentrations of sulfates. The spill degraded the western Rio Puerco as a water source. It carried toxic metals already detectable at least seventy miles downstream. And it raised the specter that uranium mining in the Colorado River Basin may be endangering Arizona's Lake Mead, and with it the drinking water of Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and much of Arizona. Except for the bomb tests, Church Rock was probably the biggest single release of radioactive poisons on American soil. Ironically it occurred thirty-four years to the day after the first atomic test explosion at Trinity, New Mexico, not far away. I can't imagine why everyone here is against it happening again. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5954087/ The will to survive On the other hand, cross-bedded patterns in the Navajo sandstone reveal its ancestry from shifting sand dunes: One fifteen-foot- high band in the cliffs displays inlaid lines slanting to the right; the next band's layers slant to the left; and above that, the stratification lines lie perfectly horizontal. Over the eons, the dunes repeatedly changed shape under the prevailing force of wind blowing across an ancient Sahara-like desert, devoid of vegetation. Depending if the sandstone shapes left behind are beat upon more by wind or by water, they look like either rough- hewn sand domes or polished cliffs. All this beauty keeps a smile on my face. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.programwitch.com/zork.asp?xID=hitchhikers_guide_to_ the_galaxy_a - - - - - - - BEAST [sMELL] - - - - - - - look at shadow | say "Arthur Dent" | east | get sharp stones | put towel on head | carve "Arthur Dent" on sandstone memorial | remove towel | west | southwest | get interface | wait [NOTE: you may need to wait multiple times do it until you go to DARK] | wait | wait | wait | wait | hear | aft | aft | up | drop chipper | drop interface | press switch - - - - - - - - - - WAR CHAMBER [listEN] - - - - - - - - - - aft | get awl | wait | wait | wait | wait | Enter EAST until you get to the very large black particle. At the particle: | look at particle | get particle | wait | wait | wait | wait | wait | hear | aft | aft | up | drop awl | press switch - - - - - - - - - - - - EARTH [LOOK AT NOTHING] - - - - - - - - - - - - look at light | north | open satchel | give towel to arthur | idiot | go to prosser | prosser,lie in the mud | south | west | buy beer | buy peanuts | drink beer | drink beer | east | north | give satchel fluff to dent | wait | get device | wait | wait | wait | wait | wait | listen | aft | aft | up | drop fluff | press switch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LUNCH WITH PHIL,DENT (LIVING ROOM) [FEEL] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - taste liquid | look at arthur | drop wine | get jacket fluff | open handbag | put jacket fluff in handbag | get wine | wait | wait | wait | wait | wait | wait | wait | listen | aft | aft | up | press switch - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PRESIDENTIAL SPEEDBOAT [LOOK AT NOTHING] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - look at light | look under seat | unlock toolbox | put all in toolbox | get toolbox | steer toward rocky spire | get out of seat | wait | wait | north | wait | wait | wait | wait | guards, drop rifles | trillian,shoot rifles | east | wait | wait | wait | wait | wait | listen | aft | aft | aft | down | get toolbox | up | fore | up | drop toolbox | press switch ------------------------------------------------------------------ Elect Romney In 2008 - The Blog! - MORE ON THE WITCH HUNT: THE KEM ...Elect Mitt Romney President in 2008! ... Post details: MORE ON THE WITCH HUNT: THE KEM GARDNER "APOLOGY". 10/24/06. Permalink 04:52:55 pm, Categories: 2008, blog.electromneyin2008.com/index.php?title=more_ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Spirit Journeys - About Spirit Journeys for Gays & Lesbians The last night we camped near Spider Rock, home of the 800 foot spectacular red sandstone monolith. The Dine believe Spider Woman lives at the top of Spider Rock. http://www.spiritjourneys.com/glb/about/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ Ancient Oz: Chapter 6: Fox in Box with Locks, No Socks It's the witch's bedroom, if you can call a raised slab of red sandstone on a red sandstone floor a "bed." At least, there is a desiccated figure wrapped in ... home.comcast.net/~burrowses/Tuesday/Oz/Oz-6.html The front is obvious. The door is guarded by a pair of kalidah skeletons, bedecked with red ribbons. We then get a bird's-eye view through the first window on the left side of the fortress. It's the witch's bedroom, if you can call a raised slab of red sandstone on a red sandstone floor a "bed." At least, there is a desiccated figure wrapped in red ribbons lying on it. The walls are covered in black and red script. Robbie uses the zoom function to let Glinda examine the writing closely. She says that she finds it "interesting" but won't say anything about it, except that it must all be destroyed. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.salemwitchmuseum.com/tour/wenham.shtml Joseph Gerrish, minister of the First Church of Wenham in 1692, is buried here beneath a red sandstone table stone (Plate 32). The inscription on his tomb reads: "Rev. Joseph Gerrish Born at Newbury Mar. 23, 1650 Graduated at Harvard College 1669 Ordained at Wenham Jan I2, 1674 Died in the Pastoral Office Jan 6, 1720." In 1692, four of Gerrish's parishioners were members of the jury which sat in judgment in Salem. In November 1692, Mary Herrick came to Gerrish complaining that Reverend John Hale's wife afflicted her. Her accusation caused Hale to oppose finally the witchcraft proceedings. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://kellyaward.com/mk_award_popup/pdf/packer.pdf Letter from Baghdad WAR AFTER THE WAR by GEORGE PACKER What Washington doesn't see in Iraq In the shade of a high sandstone arch, a Bradley Fighting Vehicle and a platoon of American soldiers from the 1st Armored Division guard the main point of entry into Baghdad's Green Zone, the heavily fortified area west of the Tigris River from which the Coalition Provisional Authority governs occupied Iraq. The arch was built a few years ago by Saddam Hussein, in imitation of ancient gates that once protected Baghdad from Persian invaders. American soldiers now call it the Assassin's Gate. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://architecture.about.com/od/housetours/ss/whitehouse_2.htm Disaster Strikes the White House Only thirteen years after the house was completed, disaster struck. The War of 1812 brought invading British armies who set the house afire. James Hoban rebuilt it according to the original design, but this time the sandstone walls were painted white. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/02/60minutes/main576332.shtml President Bush has tapped five fellow Bonesmen to join his administration. Most recently, he selected William Donaldson, Skull and Bones 1953, the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like the President, he's taken the Bones oath of silence. Ron Rosenbaum, author and columnist for the New York Observer, has become obsessed with cracking that code of secrecy. "I think there is a deep and legitimate distrust in America for power and privilege that are cloaked in secrecy. It's not supposed to be the way we do things," says Rosenbaum. "We're supposed to do things out in the open in America. And so that any society or institution that hints that there is something hidden is, I think, a legitimate subject for investigation." His investigation is a 30-year obsession dating back to his days as a Yale classmate of George W. Bush. Rosenbaum, a self- described undergraduate nerd, was certainly not a contender for Bones. But he was fascinated by its weirdness. "It's this sepulchral, tomblike, windowless, granite, sandstone bulk that you can't miss. And I lived next to it," says Rosenbaum. "I had passed it all the time. And during the initiation rites, you could hear strange cries and whispers coming from the Skull and Bones tomb." Despite a lifetime of attempts to get inside, the best Rosenbaum could do was hide out on the ledge of a nearby building a few years ago to videotape a nocturnal initiation ceremony in the Tomb's courtyard. Prescott Bush, George W's grandfather, and a band of Bonesmen, robbed the grave of Geronimo, took the skull and some personal relics of the Apache chief and brought them back to the tomb," says Robbins. "There is still a glass case, Bonesmen tell me, within the tomb that displays a skull that they all refer to as Geronimo." ------------------------------------------------------------------ 8. Operation Sandstone Although a series of improvements for the implosion bomb were envisioned and under development at Los Alamos even before Trinity, the first nuclear test, the end of the war had derailed the... nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Sandston.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/1,57792-0.html LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico -- There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple. To sneak into Los Alamos National Laboratory, the world's most important nuclear research facility, all you do is step over a few strands of rusted, calf-high barbed wire. I should know. On Saturday morning, I slipped into and out of a top-secret area of the lab while guards sat, unaware, less than a hundred yards away. These people are involved in a staggering array of endeavors: nuclear bomb design and maintenance, climate studies, supercomputer development, advanced spy-sensor research and more. Managed by the University of California for the Department of Energy, the lab is responsible for six major nuclear weapons systems, including the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles. My entry into this sprawling complex was New Mexico's State Road 4, which forms the lab's rear border for several miles. Connecting the small, church-filled town of White Rock and the sandstone mesas of the Bandelier National Monument, the road comes within a few feet of some of the lab's most clandestine areas. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0049.htm I fear I owe you an apology, I have been reading a succession of pieces about the CIA involvement in the dope trade in Southeast Asia and I remember when you first suggested I look into this I thought you were full of beans. Indeed you were right." -- C.L. Sulzberger, editor The New York Times, in a letter to Allen Ginsberg. "On a beach one night, under a nearly full moon on a double dose of psilocybin I walked across the pebbles near the water's edge and as I looked at them, they turned into smooth round rubies and emeralds and the water was molten gold. I looked back to where my friends were and my footprints were filled with lapis- lazuli blue eyes, blinking at me. I looked at the sandstone cliff behind me and the entire cliff was made up of a full-maned lions and when they roared -- that was the wind..." Extracting anything like the truth from the storm of controversy surrounding psychochemicals is rather unlikely, but the above account, in its profound, dreamlike beauty, causes one to wonder if these substances may possess more value than the medical and academic community have been willing to credit them. Governments may come and governments may go, as will public opinion, religious bias, legislation, but it would be naive to think that the lions of the mind will stop roaring. ------------------------------------------------------------------ http://classiclit.about.com/library/bl-etexts/hgwells/bl-hgwell- dream.htm The Dream of Armageddon by H.G. Wells (1866-1946) "There are dreams," he said, "and dreams." That sort of proposition I never dispute. Silence again. "I have seen those temples," I said abruptly, and indeed he had brought those still, sunlit arcades of worn sandstone very vividly before me. "It was the brown one, the big brown one. I sat down on a fallen pillar and held her in my arms.... Silent after the first babble was over. And after a little while the lizards came out and ran about again, as though nothing unusual was going on, as though nothing had changed.... It was tremendously still there, the sun high, and the shadows still; even the shadows of the weeds upon the entablature were still--in spite of the thudding and banging that went all about the sky. "I seem to remember that the aeroplanes came up out of the south, and that the battle went away to the west. One aeroplane was struck, and overset and fell. I remember that--though it didn't interest me in the least. It didn't seem to signify. It was like a wounded gull, you know--flapping for a time in the water. I could see it down the aisle of the temple--a black thing in the bright blue water. "Three or four times shells burst about the beach, and then that ceased. Each time that happened all the lizards scuttled in and hid for a space. That was all the mischief done, except that once a stray bullet gashed the stone hard by--made just a fresh bright surface. "As the shadows grew longer, the stillness seemed greater. "I couldn't get to her. She was there on the other side of the Temple---- And then----" "Yes," I insisted. "Yes?" "Nightmares," he cried; "nightmares indeed! My God! Great birds that fought and tore." The End ------------------------------------------------------------------ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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